Library: Policy

340:110-5-32. Disposition of records and confidentiality

Revised 11-1-20

The adoption agency (agency):

(1) establishes policy and procedure ensuring permanent retention of all finalized adoption records meeting the Oklahoma Adoption Code, Section 7508-1.1 et seq. of Title 10 of Oklahoma Statutes (10 O.S. §§ 7508-1.1 et seq.).When the agency ceases operating in the state of Oklahoma, adoption records are transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) or, after giving notice to DHS, to a transferee agency assuming responsibility for records preservation;

(2) maintains all records in locked storage facilities; and

(3) provides adult adoptees and birth parents information concerning the adoptees' origins and adoption circumstances, per the Oklahoma Adoption Code, 10 O.S. §§ 7501-1.1 et seq..